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DEMYSTIFYING DOMESTIC ABUSE an education toolkit DEMYSTIFYING DOMESTIC ABUSE CONTENTS Copyright Changing Relations C.I.C. 2020 Contents This publication is sold with the intention of supporting education and training that may be delivered by third parties, however Changing Relations C.I.C. reserves the exclusive right to intellectual property on all creative content produced as part of Make Do and Mend and 4 FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Us Too. 7 SECTION 1 This publication is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or INTRODUCTION TO THE EDUCATION TOOLKIT otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than which it is published. 1. Why did we create this Toolkit? 2. Who should use this Education Toolkit? Content within this publication may be photocopied or brief quotations used for non-commercial use only and must reference the original source Changing Relations C.I.C. 3. Creating the Artistic Output 4. Understanding Domestic Abuse The Changing Relations logo must be featured wherever possible. 5. Safeguarding, Disclosure and Confidentiality 6. Introduction to using the Lesson Plans The Demystifying Domestic Abuse We’re passionate about what we do and 7. Philosophy For Children: the P4C approach Education Toolkit is published by would love to hear from you. 8. Evaluation and Assessment Changing Relations C.I.C. @changerelations 42 Market Place 25 SECTION 2 Bishop Auckland @changerelations THE LESSON PLANS: County Durham 1. Year Seven: Understanding different Relationship Structures DL14 7PB @changingrelations [email protected] 2. Year Eight: Ground Rules for Healthy Relationships Changing Relations C.I.C. – Recognising what’s not ok changingrelations.co.uk changingrelations.co.uk 3. Year Nine: Survivor Stories - An introduction to Lesson plans written by Domestic Abuse [email protected] Pollyanna Turner and Lisa Davis 4. Year Ten: Demystifying who Domestic Abuse affects 5. Year Eleven: Domestic Abuse and The Law – it’s criminal Design by Curious 12 137 SECTION 3 Changing Relations is an Artsmark Partner EXTENDED LEARNING and a registered Arts Award Centre. If you Additional Tools for Creative Practice would be interested in us running an arts- based project in your school, helping your 145 SECTION 4 students gain an additional qualification, or SUPPORTING RESOURCES supporting your school attaining Artsmark accreditation, get in touch! 1. Sources of Help 2 3 DEMYSTIFYING DOMESTIC ABUSE FOREWORD & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Foreword Acknowledgements Changing Relations C.I.C. is an arts-based education and training company based in the Changing Relations created this resource through a process of running creative projects North East of England. in a range of schools in County Durham. We are grateful to them for placing their trust in Our mission is to deliver education and training to schools, businesses and organisations, us, giving us the opportunity to test what works in exploring domestic abuse and healthy using the arts to transform the way people think about gender stereotypes and relationships with young people. Our thanks are due to: relationship behaviours. We aim to: break down gender barriers; foster healthy • Wolsingham School • Bishop Barrington School • Barnard Castle School relationships; and transform lives. • Ferryhill Business and • St John’s Catholic School • The Academy at We are experienced and creative cultural producers working with artists and organisations, Enterprise College and Sixth Form College Shotton Hall using the arts to transform the way people think. Our artistic policy advocates creating and We’re grateful to all of the young people at these schools and colleges who engaged with producing art that uses social engagement as its primary medium, inviting collaboration this vital topic and our arts-based approach to understanding it. with individuals, communities and institutions, creating participatory art that exists both within and outside of the traditional gallery and Museum. In this instance, we want to Thanks are due to the funders whose support enabled us to carry out these creative, successfully challenge assumptions and boldly and creatively give voice to people who educational projects, including: have experienced and/or witnessed domestic abuse, raising public awareness of domestic • County Durham and • REG Windpower High • Gaunless Gateway abuse and helping victim-survivors access the help and support they need. Darlington Community Haswell Community Big Local Safety Fund Benefits Fund We hope that teachers will make full use of the education toolkit in their work with • National Lottery • County Durham • ESB International West children and young people to improve responses to those affected now and to prevent • Weardale Area Action Community Foundation Durham Windfarm Partnership domestic abuse in the future, by proactively supporting young people to make safe and Community Benefit Fund healthy choices. • Arts Council England We believe the arts provide a powerful set of tools for engaging people emotionally, Of course, given the nature of our educational approach, drawing from our original generating empathy and provoking fresh perspectives. As such, we work with – and artworks that incorporate the real voices of domestic abuse survivors, thanks are also due alongside – a variety of professional creative practitioners, including visual artists, writers, to all of those who – in the making of both Make Do and Mend and Us Too – were prepared actors, performers, film-makers, sound artists and choreographers, utilising their skills to share their stories with us due to their wish to save others from the trauma they and creative tools to create original and innovative work. We also collaborate with a wide experienced themselves. range of partners, including Schools, Colleges and Universities as well as public, private Finally, thanks must go to the creative team behind this resource and the Changing and voluntary sector organisations, as we recognise the value of bringing together the Relations Management Board, who give their own time to support our valuable work: relevant expertise for the given piece of work, not to mention the value of taking our work Co Director and Creative Producer where there is a need. Pollyanna Turner In 2017, we created a filmed version of our successfully toured verbatim play ‘Make Do Founder and Managing Director and Mend’ which tells the story of 3 real women who have suffered and survived the Lisa Davis trauma of domestic abuse. Since then, we have worked directly with over 500 individuals from schools, communities and professional organisations to raise public awareness of Management Board experiences of victim-survivors of domestic abuse by: sharing their stories; communicating • Helen Leake • Billie Jenkins • Jo Cameron the message that domestic abuse and coercive control is unacceptable; and promoting • Dr Stephen Burrell • Beverly Sherratt • Lindsay Parker education and signposting to prevent it. A key element of this work has been to engage • Alix Collingwood- • Teresa Keeling • Dr Kelly Stockdale with teachers and young people throughout our partnerships with them, to promote safe Swinburn and healthy relationships of all kinds, not just romantic. Thank you. As a company, we address topical and sensitive subjects in an accessible way and give a voice to those people who have been affected. As a Sex Education Forum Partner, we can support schools in addressing SMSC, PSHE and RSE themes. In addition to this toolkit we have produced resources to recognise: Sexting Risks; and Gender Stereotypes, Equality and Inclusion. We have additionally produced artworks which explore the shaming of female bodies and sexuality; how childhood shapes adolescence; and Interested in training or additional resources? Keen to keep up to date with our work? the destructive or limiting impact that cultural norms and social pressures can have on mental health and wellbeing as well as @changerelations Changing Relations C.I.C. young people’s aspirations. @changerelations changingrelations.co.uk Pollyanna Turner | Co Director | Changing Relations C.I.C. @changingrelations [email protected] 4 5 DEMYSTIFYING DOMESTIC ABUSE INTRODUCTION TO THE EDUCATION TOOLKIT 1. Why did we create this toolkit? Domestic abuse is a topic that makes many training delivery who hear about what of us uncomfortable. In our experience we’re doing and share their own personal of taking this tricky and sensitive subject experiences. Domestic abuse does not into schools over the past 5 years, school respect social distinction. leaders will respond in a range of ways, The second finding was gathered in from asking us to avoid any reference a leading independent school where to domestic abuse whatsoever and only we trialed a social norms approach to focus on the positive element of healthy measuring young people’s attitudes to relationships, to fully embracing our relationships. If you’re not familiar with intervention and enabling the group we social norms, it is a tool used to gage worked with to share their learning with the actual versus perceived prevalence, i.e. rest of the school via a series of extended what would young people choose to do assemblies. It’s a very mixed picture and themselves, what have they experienced calls for us to interrogate the reasons why and what do they assume everyone else is we might as educators choose to avoid or doing? embrace